The meeting of the naval quarters had no purpose other than ventilation, and in the current situation, there was a high probability that the submarine program would be cancelled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In the six months when Li Kongrong was unable to act, he took on various tasks in advance, including purchasing firearms, training personnel, renting houses near the shipyard, arranging supply ships at sea, etc., but he didn't expect to cancel the plan in the end.

It was still early, and Li Kongrong was about to go back to his apartment after dinner, and he was helpless about Lin Zhun's disappointment. Everything was planned to be centered on submarines, and he had no way to go to the shipyard without launching them, and Germany was going to attack Poland in five months, and his time was getting tighter and tighter, so instead of waiting for submarines in Germany, it was better to go to the United States and try to refit an armed merchant ship.

At that time, it is likely that he will not be able to personally direct the capture operation, after all, the United States still has a lot of things waiting for him. The business there was already beginning to take shape - at this time, New China Defense America had acquired three shipyards in the United States, five of which were being negotiated, and a new shipyard was being built on Swan Island in Portland;

In addition to shipyards, steel companies have also begun to buy, two have already been acquired, and three other acquisitions are being negotiated, but these steel companies are subject to the size of the iron ore and the current economic situation, and the combined output of these steel companies is just over a million tons. What Lee really wants to buy is the San Diego-based National Steel Corporation (NSC), because the company's shipyards are mainly on the West Coast, but it is unlikely that the company will be acquired by the company, either commercially or politically.

Because of history and geography, U.S. Steel is mostly concentrated in the East, especially in Chicago's Great Lakes area, and International Steel on the West Coast made a profit of $8.4 million even in 1930 during the Great Depression. This is actually determined by geography, and steel from the east has to be transported to the west at a high cost. According to the investment report of the U.S. steel industry, in the thirties, the U.S. steel industry invested US$66 to make a profit, and in the twenties it invested 24 yuan to make a profit[Note 64], and the freight cost of more than US$5 a ton made the return on investment of international steel companies extremely impressive.

A profitable company could not be acquired, and National Steel had three large shipyards in San Diego, Norfolk, Virginia, and Florida, which primarily served the U.S. Navy, notably the San Diego shipyard, which became almost a dedicated dockyard for the Pacific Fleet.

Based on this, after finding a foothold in the eastern United States, the Great Lakes region, the Gulf of Mexico, and California, the New China Defense could only place its shipyards in Oregon, HSD, and Maine in the northeast corner, like the historical World War II shipbuilding king Henry Caesar, and then acquire or control nearby steel companies to reduce shipbuilding costs.

Shipbuilding is the focus of the company's business layout, and the helicopter business is also expanding aggressively, with an improvised helicopter taking off from the MIT playground last December, a move that caused an uproar in the United States, and the major aircraft companies came to buy the technology, but they were quickly disappointed. Only the U.S. Army was delighted, not only knowing the helicopter's performance, but also receiving a promise from the New China Defense Corporation that it would be able to deliver the product within two years.

Business is booming, but the capital chain is very tight. In addition to the 5 million funds invested in the stock market, including the more than 3 million dollars earned in the stock market last year, they were invested in business expansion, and the remaining funds for aviation schools will not be supported by the end of this year. Probably because the industry has been in business for a long time, Zhi Bingyuan and others are not good at capital operation, they are very afraid of mortgaging the newly purchased company to the bank and then getting a loan to acquire the new company, but Li Kongrong thinks that this operation of 20 million funds can achieve the effect of 50 million funds by mortgaging a few times, if you add ......

Sitting on the grass in front of the Navy dormitory, Li Kongrong, who conceived the American business plan, wrote something on his notepad in words that only he could understand. Dinner time was approaching, and when he was about to put away his pen, Lin Zhun walked briskly.

"Hansheng, something is wrong!" Lin Zhun was full of nervousness, he had just finished answering the call from Hamburg.

"What's the matter?" Li Kongrong looked at him, not understanding what had happened to make his face pale.

"The gun has been checked!" Lin Zhun couldn't stand at all, he stomped his feet vigorously in front of Li Kongrong.

"What guns have been checked, you can tell me clearly." Li Kongrong's nerves also tensed, he was still thinking about what to do with the guns he got if the boat theft plan was canceled, and he didn't want to have an accident before he could figure out how to deal with the hamburger.

"At noon, the German police stormed Chinatown and confiscated all the submachine guns in the restaurant." Lin Zhun said, "Last month, I ordered 20 submachine guns from the United States, and a box of grenades......

"You're inside!" Li Kongrong couldn't sit still, he grabbed Lin Zhun's clothes and said, "Didn't you say that it had been shipped to Berlin, why are you still in Chinatown?!" ”

"I also said that it should be shipped to Berlin as soon as possible, but he. Damn, Chen Shunqing said that the things were foolproof in Chinatown, and he said that we can deliver them whenever we want. I! Lin Zhun punched himself hard, regretting that he had listened to Chen Shunqing's words.

"What did Chen Shunqing say?" Germany is very strict about guns, and the guns used in the operation are all brought into Germany by Chen Shunqing's sailors from the steamship company, because the berth is usually Hamburg, so all the guns are disembarked in Hamburg. Since the Germans found the guns in Hamburg, as long as the news is not revealed, the Berlin side may not be exposed.

"He only had one phone call and it was in code." Lin Zhun was a little unable to stand, and he sat on the chair of Li Kongrong just now. "He probably can't figure out the situation."

"It's his people who are capturing him, the question is does his people know where these things are going to go?" Li Kongrong asked.

"I don't know." Lin Zhun shook his head.

"What don't you know!" Li Kongrong looked at him and was very dissatisfied. "You don't know if the person who stored the gun and the person who brought it to Berlin are the same? Now the first thing to do is to cut off the contact, if the German police only know that there are guns there, they don't know where they are going to be delivered, then we are safe, if the Germans ask who these guns are for, we all have to go into the shift room. ”

"Probably......" Lin Zhun swallowed, "Those people may know that the gun was sent to Berlin, but they don't know who to send it to." ”

"And how did you collect the gun the first time?" Li Kongrong continued to ask. "Didn't meet with anyone from Hamburg."

"Yes, I took someone to pick it up, and Jiang Jing also went." Under Li Kongrong's questioning, Lin Zhun's forehead was full of beads of sweat, and the military horn for eating had already sounded at this time, but both of them were indifferent.

"Did you wear a military uniform when you went?" Li Kongrong said. "How many guns do we have in Berlin and where are they hidden?"

"Five Browning automatic pistols, I rented a house and hid in the house." Lin Zhun wiped his sweat. "We didn't wear military uniforms to pick us up, but accents were inevitable."

"You and Jiang Jing have to go immediately!" When it comes to the accent, Li Kongrong has a big head, and the overseas Chinese in Germany are basically ZJ Qingtian people, and there are no FJ nationals at all, except for some international students. If the Hamburg side really finds the naval quarters, maybe they will find someone to come and recognize them.

"I'm not leaving!" Hearing that he was leaving Germany, Lin Zhun jumped up from his chair, "If you really want to act, how can you do it without me!" ”

"You're not leaving? If you don't leave, we all go into the class room before we can act. Li Kongrong thought about it again and again, but still thought that it was safest for Lin Zhun and Jiang Jing to leave. It's not that you want to go back to China, you go to the Netherlands for a while, if there is a move, you go to Denmark as planned, and get ready to pick up the ships there, especially diesel, fresh water, and batteries, which must be loaded on the ship in advance, and we really drive the submarine out, and you will go to the established position to pick up. ”

"I don't want to go!" During this time, Lin Zhun made up his mind to drive the submarine out by himself, but he didn't expect that he would have to go first.

"If you don't want to go, you have to go, it's an order." Li Kongrong glared at him. "Write down the things you laid out and give them to me tonight, and don't miss a single one. I'll go to the embassy to say hello now, and you and Chen Cuichang will leave early tomorrow morning. And those five pistols are about to be transferred out of Berlin, and the Germans are too serious about their work, maybe they will search the Chinese houses all over the city. ”

After Li Kongrong finished speaking, he went to the embassy to make arrangements, leaving Lin Zhun alone to stomp his feet and beat his chest. At this time, in the cold interrogation room of the Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg, the owner of the Nanjing Hotel, Du Asheng, was tortured and dying—the Gestapo may be more polite to Germans and whites, but they have no scruples about extorting confessions from inferior races such as Chinese, Gypsies, and Jews.

In his spotless office, Bruno Trekenbach, the head of the Hamburg Gestapo, listens to his deputy. For some reason, Ingo Eichmann exaggerated the incident, saying: "Although there were only twenty submachine guns seized in the Chinese restaurant, it is surprising that in addition to the guns they also hid thirty American grenades, which is standard in the army, and it is not a gang fire at all, and I have never heard of Chinese fire ...... with submachine guns and grenades."

Seeing the captain's eyebrows rising, Eichmann, who knew that his interest had been aroused, was very happy, and he continued: "According to the interrogation report, these weapons are going to Berlin!" Yes, I thought I had misheard, but it was true that I was going to Berlin. And, two months ago, a batch of weapons was already delivered to Berlin. ”

"God!" Trekenbach was really moved this time, and in a dozen days it would be the Führer's birthday and the German People's Day, and the Führer would speak in the crowd. If saboteurs were to do it, it would be a great opportunity. "I will call the SS Supreme Leader Himmler right away, and you, go to Berlin right away with the interrogation report and the prisoners, go right away."

"Yes, Your Excellency Captain!" Eichmann was so pleased with Trekenbach's arrangement that he was finally able to get out of the circle and get to know some of the big names in Berlin. "Your Excellency, the Chinese Consul in Hamburg is negotiating this matter......"

"To hell with the Chinese!" Treckenbach scolded loudly. "We have been too merciful to this group of rats, and I will report to the Führer with a request to clean up their filthy nest in Hamburg once and for all."

"Yes, Your Excellency Captain, I swear I'll pull those filthy Chinese rats out of Berlin!" Eichmann had some concerns about the Chinese consul, which involved the Chinese diaspora and the diplomacy of the two countries, even if China was no longer important in the hearts of the empire, but it was about international public opinion.

Unfazed, Eichmann gave a Nazi salute to Trekenbach before leaving, and immediately had his vehicle ready to leave for Berlin. It's just that what he doesn't know is that the rat he wants to pull out is actively on the run.

"I've been to the embassy, and the embassy knows about it, and the Hamburg side is negotiating with the Germans, but so far there has been no result." It was late at night, and the stakes were so high that Li Kongrong had to come to the Navy dormitory again. "Did you get the gun?" After talking about the situation in Hamburg, he asked another thing.

"Jiang Jing went to pick it up, and I asked him to pick it up and send it to Lübeck tomorrow." Lin Zhun is calm now, although he blames Chen Shunqing for being too careless, but now he has no choice.

"Jiang Jing can't go, he has to leave Germany with you." Li Kongrong emphasized. "The clue that you went to Hamburg with him will be broken, and the Germans will not find anything even if they want to investigate."

"Understood, I'll let Wang Guogui go." Lin Zhun nodded. He took out the details of everything he had just written, and said, "Everything I want to say is here, and I have also packed up the hydrological data of the sea charts, and I will hand it over to you now." ”

"It's useless to leave it to me, you let Wang Guogui take it to Lübeck with you, and leave tonight." Li Kongrong's fireworks were clearly extinguished, and he had a very bad premonition.

"What else should I pay attention to?" Lin Zhun was also smoking, but his cigarette was only in his hand and he didn't smoke it at all.

"In case you don't leave the country and are caught by the Germans, you and Jiang Jing will have to make a good confession tonight." Li Kongrong hesitated, but still said the worst. "We can point the finger at the RB people, let's say that we are going to retaliate against the RB people after hearing about the Nanjing Massacre, but in the end we feel that this is not a military way, so we throw away five pistols, and the arms from Hamburg are not required to be sent to Berlin. The most you can do is hide guns, and you're targeting RB people, so it's a big deal to deport you. ”

"Got it." Since it came to this point, Lin Zhun was also terrified. He knew early on that there was a risk in stealing boats, but he didn't expect it to be so scary before it even started.

"Remember! You have to explain clearly to Jiang Jing, he is still young, don't be scared, don't show your feet as soon as you are scared. Li Kongrong instructed again and again. The submarine will not be launched this month, but in case the Germans, such as the submarine commander Dönitz, think that since the submarine is almost built, maybe the shipyard will be built as soon as possible and launched next month. I'm going to look for Dönitz at the Admiralty tomorrow, and I'm going to tell him that the submarine is almost ready, and see if he'll find a way to get it launched next month, and once it's launched, we'll have a chance. (To be continued.) )